Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.10

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6.44" x 4.1")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

The Fowler Block in Baldur, MB was built in 1899 by Alex Fowler.

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Alex Fowler standing at the counter in his store. The shelves behind him are stacked with tins of dry good, while the shelves to his side are stacked with china and glass items. The post office operated out of the back of the store.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.23

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1904

Physical Description

4.75" x 3.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (8.4" x 6.4")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the men's hockey team from Baldur, MB.

Notes

Writing on the back of the image reads: "Baldur Hockey Bums Abroad 1904"

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.1

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1903]

Physical Description

8" x 6" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (12" x 10")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image shows a view of Baldur, MB with a body of water and train tracks in the foreground.

Notes

12-2004.15 indicates the water was caused by spring flooding.

Subject Access

rural images

Location Copy

Same as 12-2004.15

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.14

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

6.6" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (8.75" x 7")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB, including grain elevators.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.13

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

September 13, 1903

Physical Description

6.6" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9" x 7")

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB with a field in the foreground. The field has a light snow coverng and stacks of hay. Baldur is in the background.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.15

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

8" x 6" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (12" x 10")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of Baldur, MB, with a body of water, possibly from spring flooding, in the foreground.

Subject Access

rural images

Location Copy

Same as 12-2004.1

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.7

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.6" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (7.5" x 5.6")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the town of Baldur, MB. Visible is the L. Curtis Block. Canadian Northern rail cars are in the foreground with horse drawn carts and men working on road and town buildings behind.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.6

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1903

Physical Description

6.75" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9" x 7")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the town of Baldur, MB. Looking south a body of water is in the foreground.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.17

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

4" x 3" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6" x 5")

Physical Condition

Some bright spots/discoloration along the top and right side of the photo

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the Bateman house, located in Baldur, MB, in winter.

Subject Access

rural images

winter

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Creator

Photographer: E.L. Lane, Glenboro, MB

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.29

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1903-1904]

Physical Description

3.5" x 5.1" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (5.25" x 7.25")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

Benedict Anderson married Millie Goodman on February 21, 1929 (Grund District info from Baldur book, page 435, RM of Argyle)

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of a man, probably Benedict Anderson, from Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.22

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

7" x 5" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9.25" x 7.25")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

From the back of the photo: In 1922 to become Canadian National Railway. Building moved to Austin, MB to the Manitoba Agriculture Museum (CNP).

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the station agent inside the Canadian Northern Railway station in Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

railway stations

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.11

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6.44" x 4.1")

Physical Condition

Tiny piece of the photo is missing from the bottom edge and there are a few hairline cracks along the top of the photo

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of three men standing in front of a building that appears to be Cleghorn's drug store.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.8

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.6" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (7.5" x 5.6")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

The Curtis Block was built in 1900, possibly by Fred Stevens.

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the Curtis Block in Baldur, MB. The Victoria Hall, for public performances, was located on the upper floor. A group of men, one holding a hockey stick, and a dog are standing in front of the street entrance to the building.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Creator

Photographer: J.G. Macdonald, Moosomin, Assa.

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.25

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

2.25" x 5.5" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (5" x 8.75")

Physical Condition

Photo is faded and has some discoloration dots throughout

History / Biographical

Dr. L.M. Cleghorn was born in 1863 and died in 1926.

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of Dr. L.M. Cleghorn, who owned the pharmacy in Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.16

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6" x 5.25")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of two women and a child on the porch of Doctor Cleghorn's house in Baldur, MB.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript Collection

Description Level

Fonds

Accession Number

24-2006

GMD

graphic

Date Range

1896-1920; predominant 1896-1910

Physical Description

55 glass plate negatives (52 at 5x7; 3 at 3X5)

History / Biographical

Edward Walker was born in Lymm, Cheshire, England in 1836. He emigrated to Canada at age 59 in 1895, from Stockport, England. Walker came to Canada with three of his children - Dora, Daisy and Theo - and settled in Millwood, Manitoba. In childhood, Walker was a victim of polio and walked with the aid of two canes throughout his adult life. Walker was a professional photographer. Once in Canada, he also took out a homestead at N.W. 18-19-229, though it appears that his son Theo did most of the work required to gain title to the property. In addition to his work as a photographer, Walker was appointed post-master for Millwood in 1901, and operated a small store. Edward Walker retired as postmaster in 1920. He died in 1923.

Custodial History

The Walker fonds arrived at the S.J. McKee Archives as part of the Lawrence Stuckey Collection in 2001. While the circumstances are not known, it seems evident that Stuckey acquired the Walker negatives in the course of his professional career as a photographer and collector.

Scope and Content

Fonds contains a variety of images of Millwood, Manitoba and the surrounding agricultural community, its people, and life produced by Edward Walker in the course of his work as a professional photographer. These images were produced from gelatin dry plate negatives, a process introduced around 1880, to replace the wet collodin process in which a photographic solution was applied to a glass plate just prior to exposure. Edward Walker’s pictorial account of life in and around Millwood Manitoba circa 1900, is an important photographic legacy of pioneer life on the upper reaches of the Assiniboine Valley. The village of Millwood was located in the Assiniboine River valley close to the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border just a few miles northwest of Binscarth and a similar distance southwest of Russell. It came into existence in 1887, with the construction of the Manitoba and North-Western Railway, a road that ran diagonally through the new West from Prince Albert, North West Territories to Portage la Prairie Manitoba.

Notes

Description by Tom Mitchell.

Storage Location

2006 accessions

Storage Range

2006 accessions

Related Material

Several prints were located with the Walker Negatives. These were created by Lawrence Stuckey and have been located with the Lawrence Stuckey collection and identified as "Edward Walker" prints. RG 6, 8.2.4 (Library - S.J. McKee Archives - Archival displays).

Arrangement

Edward Walker – Millwood negatives 1. Manitoba and Northwestern railway steam shovel loading flat cars for the “fill” c. 1900 2. Completed “fill” near Millwood c. 1900 3. Steam shovel filling flat cars for the “fill” 4. Boy and pony 5. Farmer in field 6. Portrait – man 7. Portrait – man and woman 8. Portrait – man and women 9. Portrait – man 10. Portrait – little girl 11. Baseball game in progress 12. Cottage home 13. Portrait – man 14. Portrait – little girl 15. Gentlemen, horse and dog. 16. Portrait – two men 17. Portrait – mother and daughter 18. Mill and new Mill elevators c. 1896 19. Horse power in harness 20. Construction of railway bridge 21. Construction railway bridge 22. First automobile Millwood 23. Man, horse, carriage 24. Horse, sled filled with dead moose 25. Harvest scene reaper in action 26. Aboriginal people, tee pee 27. North Western railway bridge over the Assiniboine c. 1900 28. Railway trestle near the “Clay Dump”, on west hill near Harrowby 29. Team of horse in harness drawing a sled 30. Boy, horse with steer tethered to horse’s tail 31. Horse drawn wagon with children, woman and dog

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.35

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

6.75" x 4.9" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9.9" x 8")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Group portrait of what may be a family reunion or wedding anniversary celebration. There are some potted plants and a coupld of photographs placed in front of the group. The woman seated in the wooden chair towards the centre of the image is wearing a corsage.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.9

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

5.5" x 4" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (6.4" x 4.25")

Physical Condition

good

History / Biographical

The Fowler Block in Baldur, MB was built in 1899 by Alex Fowler.

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the Fowler Block in Baldur, MB. On the left is a shoe and harness shop owned and operated by the Fowlers from 1899-1978. On the right is J. Smith & Co. Merchants, a grocery and dry goods store. As of 2000, a grocery store still occupied the premises. Men are standing in front of the entrance to the two stores.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 2

Item Number

12-2004.12

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

6.6" x 4.75" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (9" x 7")

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Image of the west end of Front Street in Baldur, MB. Business and buildings in the photo include (L-R): Cleghorn's drug store, Fowlers, Tom Johnson's John Deer Shop, barber shop, Royal Bank (Odd Fellows Hall upstairs), Lee's Chinese Cafe, Hunters Hardware, Folwer Block, L. Curtis Block, Sexsmith Block - boarding house and sample room.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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Part Of

James Wall collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

Box 1

Item Number

12-2004.24

Accession Number

12-2004

GMD

graphic

Date Range

[1900-1904]

Physical Description

7.5" x 5" (b/w)

Material Details

On matting (8.75" x 6.75")

Physical Condition

good

Custodial History

See collection level description for the James Douglas Wall collection.

Scope and Content

Studio portrait of a group of men from Baldur, MB. Seated front (L-R): Jack Snydal, Tom Johnson?, Earl Preston?. Back row (L-R): unknown, Simon Desrocher?, Harold Bateman, unknown.

Subject Access

rural images

Storage Location

2004 accessions

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